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Harold Lloyd, president, of H. Lloyd & Associates, Inc; Art Turock, president of Art Turock & Associates; and Dr. Richard George, professor of food marketing at Saint Joseph’s University will present during the National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) Super Breakfast Sessions at the 2010 N.G.A. Annual Convention and Supermarket Synergy Showcase (S3), to be held Feb. 9 to Feb. 12, 2010, at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Retail technology solutions provider Retalix yesterday launched a new inbound freight management system for both retailers and wholesale distributors.
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Shopper, an iPhone Shopping Assistant from New York-based ReachEverywhere, now offers weekly flyers from more than 100 retailers, including Target, Best Buy, Kmart, Sears, Meijer, Walgreens, Lowes and Home Depot, enabling users to find deals on products without having to flip through printed circulars.
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Two of Roundy’s Pick ’n Save locations in McFarland and DeForest, Wis., are among the first grocery stores in the state to achieve “Green Grocer” certification from the Wisconsin Grocers Association (WGA), which is spearheading a pilot program to help grocery stores in achieve energy savings, sustainability and environmental standards.
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D’Agostino Supermarkets plans to install new coupon-printing kiosks at its 18 supermarkets in New York City and its suburbs.
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Internet grocer FreshDirect is now selling branded gift cards on its Web site, www.freshdirect.com.
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Walmart, Kroger, Target, Safeway, Publix and Wegmans were cited as consistent top performers in the eyes of their trading partners since 1997, according to results of Cannondale Associates’ annual PoweRanking Study.
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iPhone Shopping List App Shopper has added a new function to make it easier for time-pressed families to accomplish their shopping chores by allowing them to create a digital version of the refrigerator list on smart phones that can be synchronized in real time with each member of the family.
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With produce traceability factoring as a front and center issue among grocery trading partners, the Kroger Co.’s new proprietary line of fresh salads includes new technology on the packaging that enables customers to learn where the produce was grown as part of grocery chain’s “Quality You Can Trace” program.
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Three retailer-owned wholesalers plan to outsource their Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solutions to improve business practices and focus their internal IT resources on other areas to deliver added to their retailer-owners.
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Women’s Health, a New York-based women’s lifestyle publication published by Rodale Inc., launched a new application for the iPhone and iTouch it developed to help consumers achieve their weight-loss goals.
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New York-based ScanAvert (www.scanavert.com) launched its ScanAvert mobile application — which can be used on iPhones and select mobile phones — to give consumers a means of detecting harmful or specified ingredients in food, beverages, and OTC drug products, supplements or vitamins that may cause an undesired reaction or unhealthy consumption, on a real-time automated basis, in any place where those items are sold, prepared, or served.
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Guiding Stars Licensing Co. (GSLC) has teamed up with an iPhone shopping assistant application, ReachEverywhere’s Shopper, to offer busy shoppers access to its “Guiding Stars” good-better-best rating system.
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Coupons.com, Inc. upgraded its Grocery iQ (http://www.groceryiq.com/groceryiq/index.html) Shopping List iPhone and iTouch app, adding bar code scanning, real-time list synchronization, and integrated coupons.
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Following a minor glitch in its store locator function that caused it to be rejected by Apple, the Tesco Finder iPhone app this month became available at the Apple Store, and was downloaded by more than 4,000 users just days after it appeared, according to Tesco’s head of research and development (R&D) Nick Lansley, who also noted on his blog (http://techfortesco.blogspot.com) that the Tesco API is servicing anonymous product search requests at the rate of one every 20 seconds during the day and evening.
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We’ve been following the evolution of iPhone applications (apps) for the food industry over the course of the year, and the past several weeks have seen some new directions these apps are taking.
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Regional independent Raley’s Family of Fine Stores is realizing enhanced category management with its recently deployed space management solution it uses to optimize many departments, aisles and categories of retail space across its 133 stores spanning four banners.
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The Grocery Shopping Network (GSN) has launched UCook, an iPhone app developed to provide shoppers with the digital weekly specials circular from their favorite grocers, a rich interactive recipe database with nutritional information, and a shopping engine.
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As part of an “open-ended” pilot, a Tesco Express store in England has gone completely self-service, with five customer checkouts, according to a published report.
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Store tours give insights into not only what's happening in the grocery industry, but also what's happening in the communities they serve.
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NCR Corp. yesterday launched its first outdoor Blockbuster Express DVD-rental kiosk, which is weather-protected and can hold up to 950 DVDs, making it ideal for smaller-footprint, 24-hour retail locations.
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Social networking brings consumer messages into focus. Sitting on the sidelines just won't cut it anymore.
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Aisle7, a provider of wellness-driven shopper marketing programs for food and drug retail, has launched a redesigned online platform that includes campaign management capabilities allowing retailers to emphasize the health-and-wellness content that best supports their brand, merchandising and marketing initiatives.
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U.K. retailer Waitrose plans to enhance the personal shopping units of its point-of-sale system with devices featuring an easy-to-read touchscreen display that the company says will enable advertising messages to be played.
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A spacious produce department with a huge variety of fresh fruits and vegetables and a full-service floral shop is among the highlights of the latest addition to Lowes Foods’ family of supermarkets in Wesley Chapel, N.C.
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 Progressive Grocer's 2009 Produce Operations Review
Against a trying backdrop of persistently weak economic conditions, fierce competition and financially wary shoppers, supermarket produce departments faced much harsher headwinds during the past 12- month period than they have in recent years, as evidenced by marginal comparable-sales gains and a tentative outlook for the balance of the year, according to results of Progressive Grocer's 2009 Annual Produce Operations Review.
 PG's CES: Inside the Market Basket: Economical Choices Bring Grocery Gains
Total supermarket sales were $430.3 billion, up $13.2 billion from the $417.2 billion recorded in 2007 -- continuing the trend of slightly higher percentage increases in each of the past five years, according to Progressive Grocer's 62nd Annual Consumer Expenditures Study (CES), now greatly expanded from the eight-page print edition to 35 pages of research.
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